Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last...
Martyrdom was missing. Defendant Fred Erwin Beal, Gastonia strike organizer, principal defendant, supposed Communist, when it came his turn to speak, weaseled. Loudly had the Communist press hailed him as a hero. Faced with a possible sentence, Defendant Beal, 33, pale, broad, fleshy, in a low voice denied his Communist principles, did not advocate revolution, had no objection to policemen, however violent in line of duty. The defense counsel wanted no martyrs...
...north latitude, between Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe and convenient airplane passage across the ocean, direct competition with both sea ships and air ships. Flying time between the continents, Mr. Armstrong calculates, will be as low...
...duty, but said it was an "accidental mistake." Denying that he was a lobbyist who buttonholed Senators, Lobbyist Austin protested that his activities were entirely ethical and aboveboard, that they were necessary to combat the "propaganda" of foreign sugar interests, particularly the National City Bank, in favor of a low duty...
...cost of construction of the rink is estimated at $60,000. J. Frederick Larson, college architect, describes the building as a simple structure with main points, balancing the Davis Field House on the opposite wing of the gymnasium. Viewed from the exterior, the rink will appear low, with two prominent main entrances, one facing Park Street at the east end and the other at the west near the gymnasium. There will be four exits in addition to the entrances. The rink will be 220 feet long, with a roof span 116 feet wide and 33 feet above...